Tournament operator BLAST, which is known for its Counter-Strike tournaments, decided to turn its attention to the professional Dota 2 scene. The organization made a statement on its official website about the start of its own series of tournaments and announced the dates of the first five events in the period from 2024 until 2025. A BATTLE AWAITS.- this is the name of the new BLAST Dota 2 tournament series.

A BATTLE AWAITS tournament dates:

• November 26 - December 1, 2024

• February 4 - 9, 2025

• May 6 - 11, 2025

• October 14 - 19, 2025

• November 25 - 30, 2025

In addition, BLAST representatives stated that their BLAST platform. tv will be the new "source of information about Dota 2", and will keep its own statistics of players, games, publish news and publish a lot of exclusive content on the discipline of Dota 2.

"We're very excited to be entering Dota 2 and plan to bring BLAST to a new level of production and excitement that Dota fans have never seen before," said Andrew Haworth, VP Ecosystems at Valve and Riot Games.